You can buy practically anything these days on the internet — especially when it’s being shipped straight from China, the beating heart of global manufacturing.
It doesn’t matter how macabre the object in question is. If it has a price, there’s a company willing to sell and even advertise it to you on social media. One Reddit user found that out the hard way after spotting an Instagram ad for a “pet incinerator” on the Meta-owned platform. Several Instagram users flagged the same ad, which shows a cutesy AI-generated cat and dog — which appear healthy and not in need of euthanasia or cremation — posing next to a bright-orange combustion device with a retractable drawer, for sale on the online marketplace AliExpress.
“I took me a while to realize this is for cremating deceased pets and my mind went to a more ‘bad dogs get put in the pet incinerator’ situation,” one confused Redditor wrote in reply.
A search of Meta’s ad database pulls up a current listing for a “Pet Animal Cremation Machine” advertised by AliExpress’s sister e-commerce site Alibaba on Facebook, Instagram and Threads. Another listing, for a “Smokeless Domestic Rubbish Incinerator for Hotel Small Pet Incinerator,” was promoted by Alibaba from May until August of this year on the same platforms. Yet another listing, from late last month, advertised a “Full Combustion Pet Hospital Use Smokeless Dog & Cat Incinerator Cremator Oven.”
